Sex Addiction
A Critical History
The concept of sex addiction took hold in the 1980s as a product of cultural anxiety. Yet, despite being essentially mythical, sex addiction has to be taken seriously as a phenomenon. Its success as a purported malady lay with its medicalization, both as a self-help movement in terms of self-diagnosis, and as a rapidly growing industry of therapists treating the new disease. The media played a role in its history, first with TV, the tabloids and the case histories of claimed celebrity victims all helping to popularize the concept, and then with the impact of the Internet.This book is a critical history of an archetypically modern sexual syndr…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Gooder, Claire / Reay, Barry
- ISBN: 978-0-7456-9804-5
- EAN: 9780745698045
- Produktnummer: 18790444
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'695 KB
Über den Autor
Barry Reay holds the Keith Sinclair Chair in History at the University of Auckland. Claire Gooder is Lecturer in History at the University of Auckland Nina Attwood is Lecturer in History at the University of Auckland
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